It’s a good overview as far as it goes, but it glides past the issue of carbon sequestration with barely a sentence—and then only to mention tech solutions like capture at the point of production, or geo-engineering, whatever that might encompass.

I’d like to see a study of the rate at which we’re losing forest land, especially in the tropics, to agriculture for export, such as palm oil and GMO soy. I think it’s vital to stop and eventually reverse this suicidal trend, and I look to the history of the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps’s efforts toward reforestration. There’s no reason, other than political, that that program couldn’t be scaled up to planetary proportions.

“Love this lady! Ocasio-Cortez is correct we can do a Green New Deal; but will the Republicans and the corrupt Democrats allow it…that is the question!”

Love this lady!
–and if the two corporate parties placing profit before planet and human survival fail to support, then the Green New Deal will become a local set of programs, that is until Congress turns over and over every two years.

Love this lady! Ocasio-Cortez is correct we can do a Green New Deal; but will the Republicans and the corrupt Democrats allow it…that is the question!

Of course, as puppets for corporate dollars, Republicans and Democrats will try not and allow it. The question is will we the people take the streets and run those who would drive our world to the point of extinction out of Town. Paraguay is going to fill up fast.

Massive plantings of fast growing plants like bamboo and hemp. Don’t burn the mature plants. Bamboo is a wonderful building material which due to massive supply would be dirt cheap, literally dirt cheap. Same with hemp which has a multitude of uses. Desalinate (completely desalinate seawater and make the Sahara bloom, make the entire US Southwest bloom. This would remove millions of tons of carbon from the atmosphere while also creating cheap raw materials for lots of uses.

Kudos to O-C for reminding the country that we landed people on the Moon, and returned them safely to Earth. And that was almost FIFTY years ago. So we are to believe that we can’t at least try to ameliorate the conditions that we have created that threaten our literal survival? The richest industry in the history of money (the fossil fuel industry) acts as if it is entitled to have its profits NO MATTER the consequences.

I hope it is clear the US cannot solve the climate change crisis by itself, not even close. None of the accomplishments the US that progressive superstar Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mentioned do not in any way resemble the climate change problem. What has the world accomplished together that is so great that it can be assumed climate change can be successfully addressed? The only thing that comes to mind is the Montreal Protocol. But that just required substituting HFCs for CFCs and because HFCs are a greenhouse gas there now an attempt underway to replace HFCs. That doesn’t give me much confidence when it comes to a need to phase out the burning of oil, coal, and natural gas for energy; stop deforestation; find a way to make steel and cement without carbon emissions; figure out how to continue to use cows in agriculture without methane emissions; grow rice without methane emissions; and farm without nitrous oxide emissions. Let’s face it, landing on the moon was a lot easier than that.